Patents by Inventor Anthony Bruce

Anthony Bruce has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for control strategy criteria selection
    Patent number: 11625661
    Abstract: The systems and methods perform simulations in a systematic way as to minimize redundant data fetching and computations and reduce run-time. The systems and methods can cache information that can be used across multiple control strategies and speed up the process of simulation by several orders of magnitude. A business analyst can first generate a set of matching criteria that meets business intuition for the specific initiative and set of stores under analysis. A systematic approach in building similar sites models from control strategies that are combinations of this set of matching criteria can be applied to minimize data extraction and processing. The similarity function allows for the distance of each criterion to be combined linearly. Data for each matching criteria only needs to be extracted once but can be used in all control strategies that uses that criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventors: Anthony Bruce, Zhichao Han, Genevieve Williams
  • Systems and methods for control strategy criteria selection
    Patent number: 10467572
    Abstract: The systems and methods perform simulations in a systematic way as to minimize redundant data fetching and computations and reduce run-time. The systems and methods can cache information that can be used across multiple control strategies and speed up the process of simulation by several orders of magnitude. A business analyst can first generate a set of matching criteria that meets business intuition for the specific initiative and set of stores under analysis. A systematic approach in building similar sites models from control strategies that are combinations of this set of matching criteria can be applied to minimize data extraction and processing. The similarity function allows for the distance of each criterion to be combined linearly. Data for each matching criteria only needs to be extracted once but can be used in all control strategies that uses that criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Applied Predictive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Bruce, Zhichao Han, Genevieve Williams
  • Systems and methods for control strategy criteria selection
    Patent number: 9280618
    Abstract: The systems and methods perform simulations in a systematic way as to minimize redundant data fetching and computations and reduce run-time. The systems and methods can cache information that can be used across multiple control strategies and speed up the process of simulation by several orders of magnitude. A business analyst can first generate a set of matching criteria that meets business intuition for the specific initiative and set of stores under analysis. A systematic approach in building similar sites models from control strategies that are combinations of this set of matching criteria can be applied to minimize data extraction and processing. The similarity function allows for the distance of each criterion to be combined linearly. Data for each matching criteria only needs to be extracted once but can be used in all control strategies that uses that criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Applied Predictive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Bruce, Zhichao Han, Genevieve Williams
  • Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for analyzing initiatives for a business network
    Patent number: 8224686
    Abstract: A system, method, and article of manufacture is disclosed for analyzing a business initiative for a business network including business locations separated into control group sites and test sites that have implemented the business initiative for a predetermined test period. Each of the sites have an associated set of attributes reflecting various characteristics corresponding to the respective site, such as geographical location, size of business location, number of employees, etc. In one aspect of the invention, a process is performed that collects a performance value for each of the test and control group sites reflecting a level of performance of each respective sites during the test period. The performance of the test sites is then measured relative to the performance of the control sites over the same time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Applied Predictive Technologies
    Inventors: Anthony Bruce, Jim Manzi
  • Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for analyzing initiatives for a business network
    Patent number: 8010399
    Abstract: A system, method, and article of manufacture is disclosed for analyzing a business initiative for a business network including business locations separated into control group sites and test sites that have implemented the business initiative for a predetermined test period. Each of the sites have an associated set of attributes reflecting various characteristics corresponding to the respective site, such as geographical location, size of business location, number of employees, etc. In one aspect of the invention, a process is performed that collects a performance value for each of the test and control group sites reflecting a level of performance of each respective sites during the test period. The performance of the test sites is then measured relative to the performance of the control sites over the same time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Predictive Technologies
    Inventors: Anthony Bruce, Jim Manzi